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marcprecipice

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#BikeTooter #RoadSafety #ClimateChange #EngManagement
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(Berkeley, California)

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marcprecipice, to cycling
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This could be #Berkeley, easily. The latent demand is completely there. We're just not making it happen at all. We need leaders who will act on what the people want, period. https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2024/04/06/french-revolution-cyclists-now-outnumber-motorists-in-paris/?sh=180b64413640 #BikeTooter

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Is this unique to Helsinki, or does this happen elsewhere too now?

A loose ”new urban environmentalist” movement, that is very interested in protecting urban trees and parks, and against what is perceived as ”too much housing development” but also, curiously opposes cycling, sometimes even vehemently.

#urbanism

marcprecipice,
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@smithkm @jhilden I agree. We have these folks in Berkeley. They get very mad when told you can’t defend parking spaces and still be called an environmentalist.

marcprecipice, to climate
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“SF is embarking on a plan to ‘lift’ the Embarcadero by as much as seven feet to address rising sea levels, but the Ferry Building’s operator is not taking kindly to the notion that the building could be shut down for years.”

I mean…it’ll be shut down for years one way or the other. Delay the start time too long and you likely extend the shutdown dramatically. So many choices like this, so few reasonable choices being made. #ClimateChange #SanFrancisco

https://sfist.com/2024/04/04/plan-to-lift-the-ferry-building-by-seven-feet-raises-alarm-of-ferry-building-operator/

ai6yr, to climate
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Forgot to tag the thousands of travelers stranded in Big Sur this weekend with

“We came here just to have lunch and go home, and now it’s like everyone is trapped here...The couple went to a general store and bought some emergency supplies: water, hot dogs and instant oatmeal."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/31/us/california-highway-1-collapse-stranded.html

marcprecipice,
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@ai6yr @meganL hell yeah. We have the same.

luis_in_brief, to random
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Dune. IMAX. 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

marcprecipice,
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@luis_in_brief if you don't mind me asking, do you wear it with glasses? any fogging issues if so?

LukeBornheimer, to random
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Massive turnout for today’s @sfbikebus ❤️ Thanks to everyone who joined us!

Bike Bus helps children and families feel safe biking to school while spreading joy and raising awareness for the critical need for safe bike infrastructure in cities.

Join the Bike Bus movement today!

A large group of children and adults ride on Shotwell Street in San Francisco as part of the SF Bike Bus on March 27, 2024

marcprecipice,
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@Jackiemauro you should be in the SF Community Advocates slack, if you’re up for joining a slack

marcprecipice, to cycling
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Chester was kidding, but you'd be surprised how often I'm accused of being a paid lobbyist for Big Bike, or of paying others to share my opinions. No one is paying me nor taking money from me for anything bike-related (well—I do give out doughnuts and bells at Kidical Mass, I’ll admit that). I stockpile my vehemence like all other cyclists, transmuting it from raw driver hostility to a more useful form. #BikeTooter #RadicalBikeLobby

sue, to random
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Tips for when someone has been given a cancer diagnosis:

❌ Don't behave like they are already dead
❌ Don't behave like everything is fine and what they're going through is NBD
❌ Don't behave like they are suddenly a totally different person
✅ STFU, stop thinking about how you're handling it, and give them the space to tell you what they need

Take a wee breath, this one isn't about you 👍🏻

marcprecipice,
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@sue for whatever it's worth I shared this with a cancer patient a year or two ago and she said “YES THIS" or something like that. At the very least I found it helpful. https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-oe-0407-silk-ring-theory-20130407-story.html

marcprecipice,
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@sue ❤️ When I read it, I recognized having made that error myself in the past, and it helped a ton to have it laid out clearly. The diagram seems like a great explanatory tool so the people in the center don't have to spell it out too often!

marcprecipice, to random
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A driver lost control of his car in Honolulu and killed two cyclists today. Let's look at how the Honolulu Star Advertiser covered this collision.

"a collision involving a vehicle” - you might think the bikes hit the car instead of the other way around.

"The vehicle landed in the path of two bicyclists” - sounds more like it landed on the cyclists, not in their path.

"Police said they were not wearing helmets at the time of the crash.” - normally people in crosswalks are not wearing helmets.

marcprecipice,
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This is all totally normal stuff for news coverage of traffic collisions that kill cyclists. You might also hear whether they were wearing reflective clothing. What's not reported here is the speed the vehicle was going when the driver lost control, nor the type of vehicle it was, both of which matter way, way, way more than helmets or reflective clothing for cyclists or pedestrians surviving a collision with a car. https://www.staradvertiser.com/2024/03/24/breaking-news/woman-killed-in-crash-along-fort-weaver-road/

marcprecipice, to climate
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In 2014, I read a book about whales that mentioned a grey whale mating area, San Ignacio Lagoon in Baja California Sur, where whales would come up to boats and interact with people. It sounded amazing and also like something that might disappear as climate change progressed. We took our kids—pictured meeting a baby and mother whale—and it was completely incredible, top 10 life experience. (I highly recommend Pacihco’s Eco Tours: http://www.pachicosecotours.com) #GreyWhales #ClimateChange

A small child at the side of a small boat, reaching out to an adult grey whale.

marcprecipice,
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Reading these pieces about those same grey whales dying of malnutrition, at least partly related to climate change, is so incredibly sobering and bleak. We have to act. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/west-coast/marine-life-distress/frequent-questions-west-coast-gray-whale-unusual-mortality-event

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    marcprecipice,
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    @lzg I should do that, too (as someone who speaks no other languages).

    marcprecipice, to random
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    Another great example of planners' visualization utopia: 21 pedestrians, one stroller! 2 cyclists, one in a business suit! Someone in a wheelchair! 2 scooters! 2 buses! Oh, and, sure, I guess we should add a car.

    We should try implementing the designs we're shown when these plans go up for approval. They look nice. https://www.oaklandca.gov/topics/downtown-oakland-specific-plan #SafeStreets

    marcprecipice, to cycling
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    “How do bike lanes decrease traffic?” From the outstanding @tksst! https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/how-do-bike-lanes-decrease-traffic

    luis_in_brief, to random
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    Unexpected side effect of reading Making Of The Atomic Bomb: any military history that does not have an almost impossible-to-read chapter on the suffering of civilians feels gapingly incomplete.

    Currently doing Guns of August. It could never be accused of glorifying war; if you have to summarize, it’s about how dumb the war was. But there is no sustained focus on the trauma to the troops, and scarcely a mention of civilians. After Making, that feels like a gross gap.

    marcprecipice,
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    @luis_in_brief not history (yet), but the first chapter of Ministry for the Future reminded me of that chapter of Making, in some ways.

    marcprecipice,
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    @luis_in_brief (the rest of the book is kind of a mess. but that first chapter is extremely memorable.)

    marcprecipice,
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    @luis_in_brief I loved Red Mars but found the next two declined in readability for me as they went on.

    marcprecipice, to SanFrancisco
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    Over the weekend, I wrote about the multi-fatality crash in San Francisco which claimed the lives of a mother, father, and child, and left their other child, a three-month-old, in critical condition. Mayor Breed, SFPD, and SFFD all suggested that this incident somehow didn't count as a Vision Zero concern and that "traffic engineering was not a factor."

    Yet, SFPD has now arrested the driver: https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/friends-identify-victims-of-horrific-san-francisco-bus-stop-crash-as-family-of-4/

    scott, to random
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    has anything worked to persuade your friends who decided months/years ago that mastodon was too confusing to let you help them and give it another chance?

    (please don't boost, i want to discuss this q with people i know and not the whole fediverse)

    marcprecipice,
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    @scott I haven’t.

    In the first year after Twitter’s launch it was incredibly annoying (like, would it text you every time anyone posted, at any time of day, with no way to disable it) and plenty of us bounced off. A year or so later many of us came back. Maybe that will happen here? Or maybe the alternatives will hold people for a long while.

    marcprecipice, to SanFrancisco
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    A toddler and an adult were killed, and a baby and two other adults (including the driver) were injured, when a driver hit a bus shelter in San Francisco today. This event produced some polarized reactions today and I wanted to talk about how I see it. https://sfstandard.com/2024/03/16/one-child-one-adult-killed-others-injured-when-car-strikes-bus-shelter-in-west-portal/ .

    marcprecipice,
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    In other countries, including the Netherlands and some of the Nordic countries, a cross-disciplinary team analyzes fatal crashes and tries to recommend improvements based on their analyses. Those improvements are often applied system-wide. In the US, we usually do not do that. Instead, we use a system of "warrants" to say that a particular intersection must experience a high number of injuries or deaths to produce a differently-engineered street.

    marcprecipice,
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    In other words, if you have a four-lane high-speed road in your town and it produces a lot of injuries and deaths in a short time, the four-lane high-speed road in my town will not get changed. Things could be different here! We need to wait and find out.

    It's my view that we could learn from many years of cross-disciplinary analyses of deaths and injuries elsewhere, and engage in those ourselves, to improve our whole traffic system. Until we do, Vision Zero will be unattainable.

    marcprecipice,
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    At some level, we are grossly disrespecting the work others have done to learn from deaths and serious injuries. We know how to prevent traffic deaths. It is not that hard and not that expensive. It requires slowing down cars and prioritizing other modes of travel on at least some roads. And we are unwilling to do that, so instead the deaths stay the same—or increase. (nyt gift link) https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/11/briefing/us-traffic-deaths.html?unlocked_article_code=1.dU0.61or.A_5eVL5lxvTC&smid=url-share

    marcprecipice,
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    So, I interpret Mayor Breed to mean that we should not analyze or learn from today's deaths because they were out of our control. I disagree. We can take control of our streets and the deaths and injuries they produce—magnitudes more than plane deaths and injuries, so much in the news right now—by making changes we know will slow cars. To say that the toddler and the adult who died today are just inevitable deaths is simply wrong.

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